Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Venezuela and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Jerry's Kids to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Oneida,
Gerry Rafferty,
Leonard Cohen,
Roxy Music,
The Cure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station,
Skriet,
Von Mondo,
Porter Ricks,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Byrd,
The Slits,
Janne Schatter,
The Leaves,
Tropical Tobacco,
Index,
Adolescents,
The Black Dice,
Eddi Front,
The Techniques,
48th St. Collective,
Minnie Riperton,
Ituana,
Deakin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Todd Terry,
Half Japanese,
Barbara Tucker,
Gabor Szabo,
Marc Almond,
Grandmaster Flash,
Toni Rubio,
Deadbeat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Heaven 17,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gang Gang Dance,
Derrick May,
Slick Rick,
Funkadelic,
The Five Americans,
Piero Umiliani,
Sonic Youth,
Sister Nancy,
UT,
Absolute Body Control,
Guru Guru,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eli Mardock,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cybotron,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Underground Resistance,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.